How Terug compares
Events, packages, rental stock, staff, customers, payments, and the website your customers actually use to book — under one roof, at one fixed monthly price.
Whether you sell the event, the gear, or both, Terug runs across very different shops with the same simple model: a date in the diary, the stock to match it, and a customer to bill.
One booking per wedding — venue date, supplier kit, schedule, deposit. Couple sees a clean quote; you keep the moving parts in one place.
Marquees, tables, chairs, decor, catering equipment, AV. Conferences, festivals, year-end functions.
Sell a "5-day Aliwal" or "Open Water weekend" as a single bookable package — kit allocated to the group, dates blocked on the calendar.
Delivery, setup, collection. Held-stock means two parents can't both "book" the same castle for the same Saturday.
Hourly, daily, weekly. Track which bike went out with which customer and when it's due back.
Generators, scaffolding, power tools, trailers. Know what's out, what's due back, and what needs servicing.
Most events and rental businesses end up patching together a website, a booking form, a wedding-planner spreadsheet, a stock spreadsheet, WhatsApp for staff, and a separate invoice tool. Terug replaces the lot.
Your public booking site
A mobile-first storefront where customers browse your kit and request bookings. Included — no separate web build, no Wix bill.
Bookings & calendar
Every request lands as an event with dates, customer, and items. See the month at a glance.
Stock & real availability
Availability is computed against overlapping bookings, not a single "in stock" flag. Two customers can't claim the same unit.
Customer records
Every customer's history, contact, and previous orders in one place. Repeat bookings are effortless.
Staff & team
Invite your team, give them roles, assign them to jobs. Owners see everything; staff see what's theirs.
Payments via PayFast
Take deposits and payments in rand. No middleman currency conversion, no Stripe-only paywall.
Item lifecycle
From purchase to active to retired. Track condition, maintenance, and how hard each item works.
Quotes & invoices
Branded PDFs for the customer, sent from your shop's email. No extra invoicing app.
English & Afrikaans
The full platform — admin and storefront — in both languages.
Honest, high-level positioning against the tools South African events and rental shops most often compare us to.
| Terug | Booqable | Rentman | EZRentOut | Spreadsheet + WhatsApp | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Customer-facing booking site included | Yes | Yes | Limited | Yes | No |
| Mobile-first admin | Yes | Partial | Partial | Partial | — |
| Pricing model | Fixed monthly | Tiered + transaction | Per user | Per user | Free, but… |
| Priced in rand | Yes | No (EUR/USD) | No (EUR) | No (USD) | — |
| PayFast / local payments | Yes | No | No | No | EFT, manually |
| English + Afrikaans | Yes | No | No | No | Your call |
| Real stock holds (no double-booking) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Independent, not VC-backed | Yes | No | No | No | — |
Based on the alternatives' public pricing and marketing pages. If something here is out of date, tell us and we'll fix it.
Booqable is the closest thing to Terug on the market and a genuinely good product. It's built in the Netherlands, priced in euros, and charges by tier plus a cut on transactions — so as your shop grows, so does the bill. Terug is built in South Africa, priced in rand, and the price doesn't change with how many bookings you run. If you take payment through PayFast and your customers think in rand, the maths is easier here.
Rentman is a powerful back-office system aimed at established AV and event-rental companies — crew scheduling, sub-rental, the works. It's priced per user and the learning curve matches. Terug is for the events & rentals business that wants to be up and taking bookings this afternoon, not after a six-week onboarding.
EZRentOut covers the same general space and has a public storefront option. It's a US product, priced per user in dollars, and tuned for the US market. Terug is tuned for here — local payments, local languages, local support.
Most events and rental shops in South Africa run on a Google Sheet, a wedding planner doc, and a busy WhatsApp. It works — until you double-book a marquee on a long weekend, or a deposit gets lost in a chat thread. Terug gives you the same speed (it's still just a few taps on your phone) without the cracks.
No per-booking fee, no per-user fee, no surprise bill after a busy month. Pick a plan, run as many bookings as you can fit in a calendar.
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